{Author Note: Lately I just haven't had the urge to write, nor do I have many Ideas. This will serve as a form of filler and give me a chance to just go nuts. Please don't take anything in this chapter seriously; it's just me writing whatever comes to mind.}
(To be properly edited tomorrow, depending on how I feel)
Nightmare Night
Three Hours after the celebration began
"Luna just jump out of the window, I swear to myself I'll push!" Celestia shouted as the flames crept beneath the door.
"But I don't want to die again!" Whined the Lunar Goddess as she stared out the tower window.
Down in the courtyard below the crowds of ponies that had gathered to celebrate Nightmare Night continued with the festivities completely oblivious to the events happening above, Ponies and a variety of other creatures continued to go about their activities.
Foals ran about as they played their games, some pretending to horrible monsters attempting to eat the rest, the other running in playful terror.
Meanwhile the unlikely part hosts continued to mingle with their guests. Princess Mi Amore Cadenza or so it seemed, was having a nice conversation with some of the Lunar Guards.
Poor guards were so confused when the Princess of Love began asking who crafted their armor, and if she could get some in her size.
At the opposite ends of the courtyard Chrysalis Queen of the Changeling Empire was having a rather awkward conversation with one of her soldiers, regarding sleeping habits.
"So you mean to tell me, you sleep in cocoons made of slime?!" Chrysalis asked the much smaller confused Changeling
"No my queen, we all sleep in beds, like everyone else." answered the solider
Chrysalis mumbled in acknowledgement as she stared at her hooves. She continued you'd to do some moving her hoof in front of her face and giggling whenever a hole met her eye.
"My Queen," the Changeling began "you need to go back to the hive, you're drunk" he finished bluntly
"Don't be silly, I haven't even finished my first bottle, Stalliongrad Vodka, it's imported." Chrysalis said cheerfully as she pulled a bottle from some unseen place and pulled the top off.
The Changeling stood in absolute stunned silence as his Queen proceeded to down 40ouces of 140proof straight Vodka.
However all was not as it seemed and only two mares were aware of it. Chrysalis and Cadence had swapped places long before the party had even begun. An inside joke, long forgotten to history.
The merriment and music was quickly silenced as the sound of shattering glass from above, filled the air.
Followed by the sounds of the Princess of the Night screaming as she fell from the highest point in Canterlot, her sister watching in anticipation.
"Why Celestiaaaaaaaaa-" *Thud* Luna came to a dead stop as he she slammed into the garden below, landing perfectly in the rose bush.
"You're replanting those!" The Sun Goddess angrily shouted,
Luna put all of her remaining strength into rolling over, and with her last breath, she took the shot. She grinned as her infinite being was pulled back into the void, sure it was a short lived victory and she'd probably still have to replant the bush in a few days. But maybe, she didn't have to plant roses; poison joke looked lovely that time of year.
Back in the courtyard the crowd continued to watch the ongoing spectacle. The oblivious Sun goddess continued to laugh to herself unaware of the balls of magic quickly heading towards her. By the time her victory laugh and dance had been finished it was too late.
Celestia was blown away from the window as her sister's spell hit her, firing her directly into the blazing inferno that had already claimed half her room. Sure she could have put the fire out on her own, but then Luna would have won the game. The same game that started the fire to begin with.
Four Hours Ago
"Dare" Luna said the boredom thick in her voice
As Celestia continued to think about what horrible act she could possible get her sister to perform. With a wicked grin that slowly spread across her face she knew what she had to do.
"Celestia" Luna began "I love you sister, but I swear on the moon, if you dare me to eat another bug. I'll bring the moon down so fast on you; it'll make the Hero of Time cringe."
"Oh my dearest sister" The Sun Goddess said calmly "I would never do something like that, no, I dare you to only use destructive magic for the rest of the evening."
Luna raised an eyebrow "Very well Celestia, but this is a much larger dare then the usual routine, I have a dare for you."
Celestia nodded for her sister to continue
"Since I can only destroy with magic and due to your little incident yesterday, I'm incapable of flight. I dare you to live the rest of the evening as an earth pony, no flight and no magic."
Back in the flaming tower
Thinking back on it now, we probably should have stopped the game there Celestia thought to herself as she charged towards the window, her body coated in flames.
"No regrets!" The Sun Goddess, now a ball of fire screeched as she plummeted towards the second rose bush.
"Oh me dammi-" *Thud*
Now that the quite common occurrence was coming to an end, Cadence ordered several guards to deal with the blaze in her aunt's room. While her and the rest of the guest continued their Nightmare Night party.
Near the edge of the Everyfree
The group of terrified foals and their parents slowly approached the menacing shrine. They're sacrificial offerings prepared to appease the beast waiting in the shadows.
"Citizens of Ponyville" came the booming voice, the source unseen "You were wise to bring me this Candy offering to me."
The ponies quickly picked up the pace as they hurriedly placed the small sacks of candy at the base of the shrine
"I am pleased with your offer-" the voice was cut off as loud rustling filled the air.
"Hey mom, when are we going to get our own candy?" came an equally loud, yet much softer voice
"Lucid sweetie, I'm trying to do my thing." Boomed the original voice
The confused onlookers continued to scan the surroundings. Attempting to find any source of the original voice, and its new partner. However, as it appeared the voices seemed to come from everywhere and yet nowhere.
"Moony, you left the Mic on." Came a new third voice.
"Discord, I know what I'm do- Oh son of a -" The sound was abruptly cut off. Once again leaving the confused foals and their parents to try and figure out what was going on.
"Dad, can we go home now? I'm cold." spoke one of the fillies.
"Sure honey, in a minute though I want to see what happens next."
After a few more seconds of Silence there was a loud click as the third voice returned
"We apologize for the technical difficulties, we now return to your regularly scheduled ritual offering. I'm your new dark over lord, Discord master of chaos!."
"Discord, I swear, if you don't give me back the megaphone, I'll teach you the real meaning of Nightmare Night." Came the original first voice, now even more aggressive.
"Come on dad, just give mom the mic back, so you guys can get your candy and I can go get mine." Rang the second voice.
"Dad" asked the cold filly "What's happening?"
"Marriage" the unicorn stallion answered flatly
As the group continued to listen to the unseen argument, they couldn't help but feel sorry for the first voice, from what they could tell. The third voice was a complete and utter moron, and the second voice was a bystander who seemed to have been sucked into this argument.
"Discord give me the mic" hissed the first voice
"Make me" taunted the third
There was a loud growl and a sudden crash as two sources of the voices fell from a tree to the left of the group. From what the crowd go make out from the giant ball of snarling and hissing monsters, the black creature was winning, whereas the Frankenstein like creature was receiving quite a beating.
"Lord Discord?" Asked one of the more curious ponies.
The tangled mess of creatures stopped moving at the mention of one of their names.
"Is that Princess Dream?" asked another of the ponies
Pleasant and Discord quickly scrambled to their hooves, after finally realizing they were now quite visible to the entire crowd.
"Well then" Pleasant said awkwardly "You saw nothing!" they shouted before fleeing into the forest.
Lucid slowly made her way down from the tree and approached the large group of now extremely confused ponies.
"Could I, go with you guys? I'll be the first to say, my parents are weird and I don't think they'll be back anytime soon."
Needless to say, without her parents Lucid managed to have an almost normal night. Almost being a key term, returning home to find out only you, and your aunt are the only two to still remaining in the castle can make things a little difficult.
Though, after a couple of days Princess Celestia and Princess Luna returned to the land of the living and after a search and rescue part searched the forest for a couple days, they managed to find both Lord Discord and Princess Dream.
{Authors Note 2: I'm sorry, this is garbage and I know it, but it's all I can write at the moment. I'm going to be taking a break for a bit now. (Possibly till the end of the month) I've been going non-stop for over 2 months now, constantly writing and working on college projects. I love you guys and take care.}